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  • What do you mean? FOSS? Open hardware or able to integrate with existing foss like home assistant?

    For the latter, I’ve used ecowitt based weather stations myself. they’re very durable, give reliable data and came with a quality manual for not much money.

    They come with an app but you can just decide not to use it, all the data is available on the device, hosted as a web server. It has good integrations with HA which is what I use for long term storage together with influxdb.














  • Mostly agree, but;

    The reality is that if China stops supplying the world with stuff, we’re fucked

    The entire world relies on China’s cheap and available “stuff”, and it encompasses everything

    I think is more their engineering expertise than cheap manufacturing. Cheap manufacturing can be easily moved to other countries as is already happening in India and Vietnam among others. However China has big expertise in high tech/large scale manufacturing in many areas like electronics, batteries, EV’s,… that doesn’t move easily.

    However for those engineering domains China also strongly relies on other countries. In our world you can’t do everything alone.

    The have enormous military power

    They haven’t fought a war in 4 decades though.